Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-09
EARNING THEIR MONEY.
Persons Receiveing Salaries for
the ExerciSe of Judg ment

Iu this capital of big salaries the gen.
eral impression is that the men who re.
ceive the largest sums do very little work
in return. The truth is that while all
these well paid officials get their salaries
mainly for the exercise of their judg-
ment, some are hard and wearisome
workers and some treat the worries of
their places as indiffently as ducks
back takes water. II Jay Gould got any
salary at all should say that he earned
it the most easily of any man in town.
He is the personification Of easy going
and never loses his temper or his head.
He treats his head through the medium
of his stomach by living very plainly; IN
fact, he commits no excesses in any
direction except tmoney.making. He has
himself under complete control. Ha is
as methodical as a machiue; goes to bed
at such an hour, gets up at such an hour,
and spends just SO many hours at his
office. Naturally, everybody who works
with him or for him likes him. But
neither as President of the Manhat-
tan Elevated nor of the Gould system
does he take any salary. If he gets his
S. for each attendance at meeting OF
the Western Union directory, it is be.
cause the money is sent to him.
The man who earns O large salary the
most easily is another easy going rail
road man, President Chauncey M. Depew
of the New York Central. He is vari.
ously credited with from S25, goo to
$40, 900 year. He may work far into
the night, and unquestionably has done
so again and again, but he always ap.
pears TO be at his ease, even when he is
explaining that he can't do something
he is asked to because he has four other
things to do at the same time. Unlike
President Cleveland, he pays no atten-
ton to details. His subordinates stew
over them and come to him for word
of final decision when they have reached
the end of their responsibilities.
The man who earns $40, 900 the hard.
est of any man l know is a celebrated
tea faster down town. To-day you see
him and be looks like any other man,
but if you see him in a month hence he
will strike you as extraordinary. His
hat will then appear to be four sizes too
small, and to be perched on his head like
marking pot on barrel. This is said
to be because he has been poisoned by
his business, and the lower part sf his
face and head has swelled out of all pro-
portions to the crown of his hat. He
only washes his tongue with the tea and
then spits it out, but in the course of
doing this thousand times q day for
several weeks the strong drug does its
work, and then he has to lie off fer a
few weeks ard shrink his head, ready to
begin again.
don't know how II. B. Hyde of the
Equitable Life. or McCurdy of the New
York, earn their $36, 600 apiece. They
get "extras." think, that brings their
salaries much higher. The best paid
editor in town, David M. Stone of the
Journal of Commerce, takes his $l5. 900
year very complacently. Theodore
Thomas probably made 100000 last
year, and will duplicate it this year.
He gets $4,000 for fifteen weeks as
leader of the American opera. But he
is forever high strung, excited and in
trouble, and salaries come hard with
him.-N. Y. Cor. Providence journal.